Back in 1982, the Verwood Hotel stood boarded up and empty in the village’s downtown area. The then Lake Orion Village Manager Jim Stump approached developer Carl Messer about constructing an 18 unit complex on the site. Messer told village council members on June 23, Stump felt the remodeling of Verwood was vital to the […]
You know you’re getting old… when everyone you know seems to be retired. Spent Friday night celebrating with people from the village saying goodbye to Pat Fry, who has been a police dispatcher for a very long time. Although officially leaving the police department as a retiree, Pat will return this fall working some hours […]
Let’s see, my car was rear-ended on M-24 last December. During most of the winter months, I suffered through frozen pipes on a regular basis. In April, like everyone else, I experienced the ‘ice storm of the century.? And my car hood became decorated with dents from fallen branches. To get away from it all, […]
Details are still sketchy about an armed robbery at Tobacco Gallery on July 3 at 1:18 p.m.. According to Lake Orion Police Lieutenant Harold Rossman, a man walked into the store on North Park Blvd. armed with a knife. Somehow the female cashier was able to lock herself in the bathroom. A camera recorded the […]
A decision to offer full year driver’s education for the first time this past year uncovered a problem. The Lake Orion School District doesn’t make any money providing this service. In fact, it costs money to teach area teens how to drive. ‘There’s a question whether we should even be in this business at all,? […]
Sometimes being in the newspaper business can be quite rewarding. Latest case in point. Lori Tirpak’s daughter Gina graduated from Lake Orion High School this year. Mom took plenty of pictures during the graduation ceremony. Unfortunately, the place where she took her film to be developed had a machine that ‘ate her film.? So here […]
According to Lake Orion Police Lieutenant Harold Rossman, alcohol was definitely a factor in a boat crash on July 19 on Lake Orion. Three people were injured — a 31 year old man from Rochester, a 25 year-old man from Warren and a 21 year old Warren woman. The three were transported to an area […]
Although there was some discussion earlier in the year about making Green’s Park a year round facility, it’s not likely to happen in 2003. Lake Orion’s Parks and Recreation Committee recently recommended to the village council the park on M-24 stay open, but LO Village Manager JoAnn Van Tassel wants more input before any decision […]
As one of his first jobs as a new Oakland County commissioner, Eric Wilson asked the board to give three municipalities some financial help with two recent elections. His contention is that residents of Orion and Oakland Township and the Village of Lake Orion were without representation three months due to a vacancy in the […]
A parks and recreation committee that was created four years ago to improve village parks is being restructured. Lake Orion Village Council members have agreed with LO Village Manager JoAnn Van Tassel’s suggestion to change the group of volunteers into a task force. They would meet with Van Tassel three to four times a year […]